Cricket

The Royal London Cup has worn many guises since Sussex first the Gillette Cup just over 50 years as the first limited overs format. This year’s competition did not get off to the best of starts for the Sharks with the game rained off at Horsham and losses to Hamsphire at Southampton and to [...]

The project to have a competition of city-based T20 sides playing in a month’s window backed by SKY is of great concern to those like Ivan that follow the county game. It worries me as it is another example of cricket aping the worst of football. We have already seen a cricketing media like [...]

Readers know I am no fan of 20/20 but to be invited to Lords on a warm summer’s evening is most pleasant. My host is an old friend and an Arsenal fanatic who has a debenture seat in the Mound Stand. These are much prized as many including me prefer the airy space of the Upper Mound Stand to [...]

Hubert Doggart has just turned 90 and this remarkable man gave a speech at a birthday lunch in his honour at Horsham. He won no less than 5 blues in cricket, football, squash, fives and racquets and on his Cambridge debut scored 215 against Lancashire,scoring 2000 runs in one season. He and John [...]

Festivals are an agreeable feature of the season when cricket is taken into and around the county. It’s not always viable – sponsorship was difficult to attract to Horsham. In his programme notes Chief Executive Zac Toumazi observed that if there is a fixture cutback there may be doubts [...]

I returned to Lords and for a variety of reasons found it a more enjoyable experience than the Friday. The Saturday test of the Ashes is one of the great sporting experiences and as I sat in the sun in the front row of the Mound Stand I could not think of anywhere else I would prefer to be. I was [...]